At the site of an accident or unexpected injury, the first few minutes determine a patient's outcome - whether they survive, recover fully, or are stricken by long-term complications. Trauma care is ...
Earlier this month staff from Cary Medical Center joined team members from several local ambulance services for a collaborative training day ...
Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...
I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Expeditious assessment and treatment does not fully explain the survival advantage of patients treated at Level I trauma centers, according to a report in the January issue ...
West Virginia University pediatric trauma specialists and statisticians have formulated a measure to more accurately assess ...